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Drunk driver: cops should have stopped me earlier
Chutzpah champion of the Northwest? "Three years after getting drunk, blowing through a stop sign and triggering a wreck that left her passenger critically injured, a former Idaho resident has filed a $1.5 million claim against Washington's Pend Oreille County for not detaining her before she caused the crash." Ashlen Lee, 17 at the time of the accident, says in her claim that a county sheriff's deputy let her off with a warning in the wee hours although he could see she'd been drinking and neither she nor her passenger was wearing a seat belt. (Richard Roesler, "Driver says her accident deputy's fault", Spokane Spokesman-Review, Aug. 5).
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"Self-Described Drunkard Sues Strip Club That Sold Him Drinks"
Attorney Sabato DeVito, who represents Johnny Eugene Smith of Spring Hill, Fla., says his client might not have wrecked his Corvette if the Calendar Girls strip club hadn't been so willing to indulge his taste for the bottle.
University of Florida law professor Lars Noah told the Times the suit isn't frivolous, but it's unlikely to go far in the legal system.
"It's kind of surprising that any lawyer worth his salt would take a case like that," Noah said. "I'm partly to blame for that, I guess. We're churning them out."
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MySpace Cross-Complaint?: Alleged rapist blames site
Via Childs, Pete Solis, the 19-year-old who allegedly sexually assaulted a 13-year-old Austin, Texas, girl whose family is suing the MySpace website where the two met, is, Time Magazine reports, contemplating his own litigation against MySpace on the grounds that it made him think he was meeting a 15-year-old.
"MySpace wasn't there when they went to Whataburger. MySpace wasn't there when they went to the movie and MySpace wasn't there when they climbed in the backseat," [Solis attorney Adam] Reposa said. "Meeting on MySpace — if that alone is enough, then we can make the same claim for damages."
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